As for our contributions as authors, it should be explained that, although each author took on individual responsibility for the initial drafting of specific chapters, the chapter drafts subsequently went through a number of stages of redrafting and editing. | 86 WORD AND PHRASE GRAMMAR Others as if as though even if even though in case no matter wh-word For illustrations see . Correlative subordinators A few subordinators have a special relationship to a form in the superordinate structure. The subordinator and the form it correlates with cooperate to express the relationship between the clauses 1 If we had moved in then we d have to spend fifty thousand pound to get it up to scratch conv 2 And El-ahrairah knew then that although he would not be mocked yet Frith was his friend fict 3 As the castle was frozen so were they as the castle was slowly crumbling but they stayed in their stasis so their hopes their chances decayed. fict These are not complex subordinators the subordinators if although and as are simple but the semantic relationship is reinforced by an adverb in the matrix clause then yet so . The adverb can generally be omitted in these cases except in the type with inversion of the subject and the verb in 3 . Another kind of correlative subordination is found in clauses following a degree element in the superordinate structure as so . as morel-er less . than so such . that. 4 You are not as dumb as you look are you conv 5 I was confused by all these solicitous questions and found myself telling more lies than I had to. fict 6 Confidence is so fragile at this stage that if recovery were to falter interest rales would have to be reduced further news A special type of comparative structure contains the . the . expressing proportion either connecting clauses 7 or verbless structures 8 7 The more systematically we analyse the problem or idea to be communicated the clearer it becomes acad 8 The more rapid the cooling the finer the grain size and the poorer the crystallinity acad See the account of degree clauses in and . 2 Overlap between subordinators and other word classes There is a good deal of overlap between subordinators and other word classes. For examples see Table see also
